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FBI boss Kash Patel details how agency and partners secured record-shattering FIFA World Cup

In a Fox News Digital exclusive, FBI Director Kash Patel details the massive World Cup security operation, including 700 drone takedowns and no significant attacks.

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This was the scale of the task facing the Federal Bureau of Investigation going into the first World Cup final the United States has hosted in more than thirty years.

"That’s what we executed on," FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview detailing the largest commitment of the agency’s resources ever devoted to securing a sporting event – the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

"We’re proud to report that, thank God, and thankfully to the men and women of the FBI and our partners, we had no significant criminal attacks during this World Cup," Patel said.

That information was supported by the FBI’s Intelligence Coordination Center, where more than 400 personnel processed an average of 26 incidents per day and produced nearly 100 intelligence reports for federal, state, local and private-sector partners, according to the FBI.

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